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Figured it out … the joys of using my Mac as a local host without knowing what I’m doing :/

Sorry to be bothersome, but any ideas? ??

Thanks for getting back to me, esmi. I read about how I need page.php, but I have two problems:

(1) The only template files in my theme are:

Theme Files
Templates

* Comments (comments.php)
* Footer (footer.php)
* Header (header.php)
* Main Index Template (index.php)
* Search Form (searchform.php)
* Sidebar (sidebar.php)
* Theme Functions (functions.php)
* legacy.comments.php (legacy.comments.php)

Styles

* Stylesheet (style.css)
* ie.css (ie.css)
* ie6.css (ie6.css)

(2) I can’t find clear instructions on how to create a new template in the first place.

What do you think? Thanks!

Thanks for all your help, everyone! I created an online database, uploaded WordPress, fiddled with the settings, and finally got it to work! The final step was removing
— Database: WordPress
—
CREATE DATABASE WordPress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci;
USE WordPress;
from wp-config. Not sure why, but it was giving me an error message.

I appreciate the time you all took with a newbie. Thanks again!

Have you installed wordpress at GoDaddy? Or are you trying to import the database at GoDaddy with phpmyadmin before installing wordpress?

I’m trying to import the database before installing wordpress. Should I install wordpress first?

Thanks for your help again songdogtech. I looked at that video and a lot of other videos, but none of them gave any new info I didn’t already know. I still get the error message in my previous post. There must be something really simple that I’m not getting. I export the database from WordPress (offline), change the instances of localhost to my domain, then tried to import to wordpressjessie (online). Is it some kind of user problem, where the user of wordpressjessie (me) is not set up to access WordPress? Do I need to have the same password for both databases?

Thanks for you continued help, numeeja. I’ve set up an online database on GoDaddy and have called it wordpressjessie. The offline database is called WordPress. When I export WordPress and try to import it to wordpressjessie, it gives me the following error message:

SQL query:

—
— Database: WordPress
—
CREATE DATABASE WordPress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci;

MySQL said: Documentation
#1044 – Access denied for user ‘wordpressjessie’@’%’ to database ‘WordPress’

I changed all the instances of localhost to my domain before import. Do you know how to successfully import the database?

Thanks for your reply, numeeja. I’m afraid I’m trying to learn this solo, and have no experience with this. I’m not sure of everything you’re referring to in your explanation. I have a database set up for WordPress at https://localhost:8888/MAMP/ and created a new user with username, password, and host (localhost). I put this information into wp-config in the htdocs folder on my computer. For the search and replace, do you mean export something from phpMyAdmin and change localhost to my website address? And then what? I can’t find explicit instructions on the web.

Thanks!

Please help. I’ve been scouring the internet with no results, and I’m after days of this I’m ready to throw in the towel. Were the files in the htdocs folder the right files to drag over? I’ve also tried to export from phpMyAdmin in MAMP and manually change all the localhost:8888/database designations to mywebsite.com, but then where do I upload it?

Thanks for your speedy reply, songdogtech. For the second issue, I have a database set up on MAMP, and it matches the info I put into wp-config. I’ve been looking around where people have been trying different designations to MySQL hostname (like IP address) and I’ve tried them all with no success. Could be because of my first issue. To export localhost database, I downloaded Fetch, connected to https://ftp.website.com, deleted what was in there already, then dragged over everything in MAMP>htdocs>wordpress to the ftp. Was that right? I’ve been scouring the internet for info on how to do this export, but I find very little, and nothing for Macs. It makes me wonder if this is just common knowledge that passed me by?